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The Flying Serpent (1946)

 
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 7:03 pm    Post subject: The Flying Serpent (1946) Reply with quote

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PCR studios reused the basic concept of its own 1941 feature "The Devil Bat" for this yarn about an archaeologist (George Zucco) who dispatches his enemies by hiding a feather on them from a reptile-bird that is supposed to be an ancient Aztec god.

The reptile-bird kills the victim and retrieves its feather. This "monster" may remind older viewers of Flubadub from "The Howdy Doody Show". Directed by Sam Newfield under the name Sherman Scott.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 12:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another example of how science fiction in the 1940s made science sit in the back seat and let horror do the driving. Jimbo Berkey offers a personal anecdote to set the tone for his comments about The Flying Serpent from his website, Free Classic Movies.

After reading his review, click on the title above and watch the movie! But don't forget to make the popcorn first. Very Happy
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A few months from now, on December 21, 2012, the Mayan calendar ends, and many prophets and wise men predict that the world as we know it will end.

I know a man who has planned his vacation for that period, and will be flying to South America with a pair of photographers on assignment from the National Geographic magazine. They will be making a three day trek to the top of a mountain and spending that day with a small village of Mayans.

He anticipates that he may never return from that mountain . . . . we will see.

He believes that the rest of the world may be destroyed by floods or fires, but he will remain safe among the Mayans on top of their mountain in South America.

Of course, I am a bit of a smart-alek with an attitude, so I add doubts to his theories. I suggest to him that if the Mayan calendar ends on December 21 - maybe instead of the United States and the rest of the world being destroyed on that date, with his mountain top Mayan village surviving, just the opposite will happen. Possibly his Mayan village will be destroyed and the rest of us will be just fine on December 22.

It is their calendar that ends on December 21 . . . not ours!

Of course, he isn't swayed, and is very excited about spending December with the primitive Mayans atop a remote mountain in South America.

This movie sports our old friend George Zucco, famous for his movie roles as mad scientist or evil character in 1940's thrillers, and in this one he is again the center of a mad pre-historic Aztec creature's murder binge.

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While on an archaeological dig in New Mexico, he has discovered a surviving Aztec creature that will kill and drain every drop of blood from any person who holds one of his feathers.

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Our mad archaeologist Professor Forbes plants a feather beside anyone that he wants to die, and then lets the ancient flying creature loose. The creature flies directly to the holder of his feather and kills the person, leaving no clues to the murder.

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A famous radio personality/detective teams with the mad archaeologist's beautiful young daughter to uncover the secret to the mysterious deaths
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